The High Cost Of Hosting LISNews

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I can't seem to update the story, something about that paypal link in there makes the form choke, but the email domains will be:librarianmail.comlibrarianmail.orglibrarymail.netI'll be keeping track of anyone who chips in, and sending out details soon on how that'll work.

Red Hat will want to have its own apache lying around; that's fine, keep it, just ignore it. No need to even tell the package manager what you're doing, just compile and install apache 1.3.x in the way described in Slash's INSTALL file -- it'll go into /usr/local/apache and Red Hat will never know it's there.

If RH's perl won't work, that's fine too, recompile perl (but this time you want to overwrite RH's /usr/bin/perl with your version, don't try having /usr/local/bin/perl be different from /usr/bin/perl.)

Having done that, you should just be able to stop RH's apache 2.x, and start your own apache 1.3.x, by running RH's init.d script and your own /usr/local/apache/bin/apachectl script. Once you've confirmed that works fine, you might consider replacing RH's init.d script with your own, so if your system reboots, it's 1.3.x and not 2.x that starts up.

Ditto. I had to use a different e-mail addy than I do here because my usual one was used previously at paypal (even though the account has long been cancelled). Should we chuck you a note or something once we send some cash your way?

Is there some way you can modify the Paypal thing so we can include a note with our LISNews usernames in it so you know who we are? My e-mail address at Paypal should be a real clue, but it may not be obvious for everyone.

Blake,
$30.00 sent your way and I hope it will help (alas, we can't send more as we have entered the teenaged years at our household: my life is reduced to writing checks, conflict resolution, and driving people about time at odd hours).
Regards,
Glen

I've chipped in my $50 and hope that others can contribute what they can. Even $5 or $10 will get LISNews closer to it's goal.Not all of us are fans of public radio or television, but I can't resist saying something like:
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